[ecrea] 2016 Critical Studies Research Group Conference on Resistance

Status: CfP Call for papers
Conference
2016 Critical Studies Research Group Conference on Resistance
13.06.2016-14.06.2016
Grand Parade, University of Brighton, UK

Dear all,

*** Apologies for Cross Posting ****

I hope you are having a good year and would like to invite you to submit 
an abstract for the 2016 Critical Studies Research Group Conference on 
Resistance.

Resistance

13th-14th June 2016
Grand Parade, University of Brighton

Deadline for submission: 1st February 2016

If resistance has a tradition, it is one which is not unilinear or 
uncontested. Dominant understandings of resistance are themselves 
resisted, typically when certain peoples are left outside of the history 
or the conceptualisation of resistance. This conference explores how the 
notion of resistance has been challenged, both by practices of 
resistance and theorisations of resistance (a distinction which can only 
be maintained so far).

How has the advent of new technologies shifted understandings of 
resistance? Is resistance distinct from politics, and if so how do both 
operate when neoliberal rationality becomes hegemonic? Does violence 
interrupt resistance, or is it generative of resistance? What 
conceptions of the human are presumed in discourses of resistance? Can 
resistance be enacted, or contested, through memory?

The Critical Studies Research Group welcomes proposals for both research 
papers as well as non-conventional forms of presentation, for example 
performances, workshops, screenings and papers that resist traditional 
hierarchies of academic presentation. Videos and performances should be 
accompanied by a short presentation detailing the work’s critical 
engagement with the conference theme. Submissions might be from a range 
of disciplines, and transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary 
contributions are also encouraged.

Topics might concern, but are not limited to, the following:

    Fugitivity; the undercommons; ensemble
    Memory and/as resistance
    Resistance to (neo)liberalism
    Neocolonial/decolonial resistance
    Détournement today
    Conformity and social media networks
    Populism(s) and/as resistance
    Medicine and misconduct
    Violence and nonviolence
    Counter-histories of resistance
    Democracy and/as resistance
    Queering resistance
    Horrorism; necropolitics; precarity
    Resistance in/to asymmetric warfare
    Discriminations: ableism, sexism, ageism, racism
    Police and protest
    Intersectionality and/as resistance
    Youth and resistance
    Virality, online political movements and digital resistance


Proposals should be sent as an attachment and contain a title, an 
abstract (of no more than 300 words) and a brief biography. If relevant, 
proposals can include links to give an indication of your artistic 
practice. The deadline for proposals is the 1st February 2016.

Please send proposals to: (CriticalStudiesResearch /at/ brighton.ac.uk)

Kind regards,

Heather McKnight

Critical Studies Research Group

University of Brighton

https://uk.linedin.com/in/hmcknight

https://brighton.academia.edu/HeatherMcKnight

Contact person: Megan Archer
email: (M.Archer /at/ brighton.ac.uk)

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